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Pantami: DSS disowns Amachree; says views expressed by former director personal On By Soni Daniel As many individuals and groups insist on the resignation of the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Pantami, over his pro-Taliban links,  the Department of State Services has disowned the view expressed by its former Director, Denise Amachree, on the intelligence the secret police reportedly handed the Buhari administration. Amachree, a former Assistant Director with the DSS h...

Vanguard News N7.9 billion cash: EFCC grants Okorocha bail On By Soni Daniel, Abuja After spending two nights in its custody, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday, released former governor of Imo State, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, on administrative bail. But the EFCC had to vary the bail terms before Senator Okorocha could meet the terms and be able to go home after spending 48 hours with his interrogators. A source said the anti-graft agency had demanded that the former g...

By Soni Daniel, Abuja After spending two nights in its custody, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday, released former governor of Imo State, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, on administrative bail. But the EFCC had to vary the bail terms before Senator Okorocha could meet the terms and be able to go home after spending 48 hours with his interrogators. A source said the anti-graft agency had demanded that the former governor produced two former governors or two serving senators f...

Soni Daniel, Abuja The allegation by the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra that the Department of State Services is planning to attack banks and blame its members for the act has been dismissed as childish and outlandish. The claim by IPOB leadership came just as elements suspected to be members of the banned group attacked a branch of a first-generation bank in Abagana in Anambra State on Tuesday night. A top security operative told Vanguard on Friday that the IPOB leadership was mischievou...

Former Imo State Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha spent his second night with his interrogators on Tuesday, with indications emerging that he would not be released until he had addressed all the things he knows about the sum of N7.9 billion and choice property allegedly traced to him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.

By Soni Daniel – Abuja The security initiatives of Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State got a boost on Sunday when the Emir of Kano, Dr Aminu Ado Bayero, praised the government for its watertight strategies against insecurity in the state. The Emir charged the governor to sustain his onslaught against criminal elements in his state. The Royal Father emphasized that no society develops in the absence of peace, as peace is the foundation of every societal growth, adding that when one segment of ...

33 FRSC officials, one other arrested over highway extortion On By Soni Daniel No fewer than 33 officials of the Federal Road Safety Commission have been arrested by a combined team of Independent Corrupt Practices Commission, Department of State Services and the Federal Road Safety Commission. The arrests, which also included a civilian, was jointed conducted under an operation codenamed “Operation Tranquility V” to rid the agency of bad eggs whose extortion of motorists on the nation’s...

Ex-power minister, Wakil, sent to prison over alleged corruption On By Soni Daniel, Abuja A former Minister of State for power in the country, Muhammad Wakil, is to remain in prison custody till March 31, 2021 on the order of a Federal Capital Territory High Court over his alleged involvement in the mismanagement of the N27 billion set aside for the payment of the retirement benefits to staff of the defunct Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN. This action followed the two-count charge borde...

Vanguard News BUHARI: everywhere! How ? Fashola explains On By Onochie Anibeze, Saturday Editor & Soni Daniel, Northern Region Editor Works and Housing Minister, Babatunde Fashola, took some time off on Wednesday to address some issues in the works and housing sector in Nigeria, touching on how the administration has actively taken steps to address the nagging infrastructural deficit and decay in the land and how that push is taking millions of Nigerians out of poverty and giving them a sen...

Newly-appointed Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Abdulrasheed Bawa, assumed duty in Abuja, pledging to wage intelligence-driven war against corruption .